EP0389771B1 - Optical equipment of fiber laser Doppler velocimeter - Google Patents

Optical equipment of fiber laser Doppler velocimeter Download PDF

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EP0389771B1
EP0389771B1 EP90102768A EP90102768A EP0389771B1 EP 0389771 B1 EP0389771 B1 EP 0389771B1 EP 90102768 A EP90102768 A EP 90102768A EP 90102768 A EP90102768 A EP 90102768A EP 0389771 B1 EP0389771 B1 EP 0389771B1
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    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
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    • G01P—MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT
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  • This invention relates to an optical equipment of a laser Doppler velocimeter which utilizes an interference of two laser beams to measure velocity, for example flow in a pipe, combusting flow, flow in a engine, and so on. Especially, this invention relates a optical equipment of a fiber laser Doppler velocimeter probe and an optical equipment of a manipulator to transmit a laser into a fiber.
  • a laser beam is split into two beams and collimated. These two beams are focused by a front lens and form a measurement volume wherein an interference fringe are made.
  • a particle in flow for example a dust, traveling the measurement volume causes scattering light, which is detected at a photomultiplier and transformed into electric Doppler burst signals. The velocity of the flow is obtained by processing the Doppler signal by a signal processing system.
  • optical fibers are used to transmit laser power to a measurement volume and to transmit a scattered light to a photomultiplier.
  • a compact type of the fiber LDV probe as shown in Fig. 6 comprises a Selfoc microlens to collimate the laser beam, front lens, c, to focus two or four beams and make measurement volume, o, receiving lens to collect scattering light from the measurement volume and focus on the end of a receiving fiber, e, and a receiving fiber to transmit the scattered light to a photomultiplier. While, a large type fiber LDV as shown in Fig.
  • a Selfoc micro lens b, b, to collimate the laser beams out of the fibers
  • beam expander lens g, h, to expand a beam diameter to increase the scattered light intensity
  • front lens receiving lens
  • receiving fiber a receiving fiber
  • a beam out of a Selfoc micro lens can not be expanded due to its compact size so that the measurement volume becomes large which decrease a signal-to-noise ratio. Furthermore, the troublesome light scattered when laser beam passes through a lens causes noise and decrease an accuracy of the measurement. A space filter to cut off the troublesome light scattered can not be used in the compact fiber LDV due to its size.
  • a beam expander is used to make the beam diameter large to make the measurement volume small to increase a light scattered intensity and a complicated adjustment of an optics is required.
  • a focused laser beam has to be positioned in a core of a fiber, a, as shown in Fig. 5, so that three dimensional traversings, x, y, z, and two angle adjustments, ⁇ , ⁇ , are required.
  • the core diameter of the fiber is 3 to 4 ⁇ m, a resolution of the adjustment of less than one micron is needed which can hardly be achieved even using a micro meter.
  • a polarization preserving single mode fiber has small numerical aperture, NA. This means that when a laser beam focused to transmit laser power into a fiber the focused diameter has to be smaller than the core diameter of the fiber and NA of the focusing laser beam has to be smaller than the fiber's NA.
  • the principle object of this invention is to realize a beam expander with a perforated lens to increase a SN ratio and decrease a number of an optics, a complicated adjustment of an optics, and a probe diameter.
  • the use of the perforated concave lens and plano-convex lens combination as a beam expander contributes to make a measurement volume small for high scattered light intensity, to cut off troublesome light scattered when a laser beam passes through a lens, that is, a space filter.
  • a three point supporting mechanism to tilt an end of a rod glass and a tube in which a lens and a fiber are fixed enables us a high resolution adjustment by commercially available screws, so that a high coupling efficiency can be achieved.
  • this invention was done both in a fiber LDV probe and a manipulator.
  • the transmitting fibers, 4, 4, having Selfoc microlens, 41, 41 are collimated and installed.
  • the perforated concave lens, 32, the receiving plano-convex lens, 33, and the front lens, 34 are installed in the probe casing, 31 in the same axis.
  • the laser beam, 12, 12, out of the Selfoc microlens, 41, 41 pass through an outer part of the perforated lens, 32a, while the collected light scattered when a particle pass through the interference fringe of the measurement volume pass through the center part of the perforated lens, 32b. This hole works as a space filter.
  • the other end of the transmitting optical fiber mentioned-above is connected to the manipulator, 2.
  • the manipulator comprises a fiber connection part, a tube, 24, in which the focusing lens, 24a, and the fiber, 4, are fixed, and the glass rod, 23, to introduce the laser beam, 12, to the focal lens, 24a, with the same optical axis.
  • the ends of the tube, 24, and the glass rod, 23, having the three point supporting mechanism are tilted by the adjusting screws, 27a, 27b, 29a, and 29b, in order to change a beam incident angle to the focal lens and an incident beam position at the focal lens.
  • the laser beam, 12, out of the Selfoc microlens, 41 are expanded with its beam diameter and the beam distance, then focused by the front lens, 34, to make the measurement volume.
  • a particle travels the interference fringe of a measurement volume, a scattered light occurs.
  • This scattered light is collected by the front lens, 34, and focused on the end of the receiving fiber, 51, by the receiving lens, 33, passing through the perforated part of the expand lens, 32b.
  • the use of the perforated beam expander contributes to the reduction of the number of the optics, the simplicity of the optics assembly and its adjustment, and the compactness of the probe.
  • the hole plays a role in the effective space filter for the receiving optics to cut off the troublesome light scattered at the lens surfaces when laser beams pass through it, and the effective receiving aperture.
  • the expanded large beam diameter incident on the front lens, 34 furnishes a small measurement volume which increases the scattered light intensity for increasing the SN ratio and the measurement accuracy.
  • the adjustments of the tube, 24, and the rod glass, 23, are carried out by the commercially available screws installed at the end of the bodies.
  • the front parts have rotational mechanism such as a gyroscope so that the two directional adjustments of the angle of the tube and the rod glass work for the beam positioning and the incident angle changing to the front lens to adjust the focused beam into the core of the fiber.
  • This adjustment mechanism has a high resolution of the beam spot positioning of less than 1 ⁇ m. This invention can increase a coupling efficiency using this mechanism.
  • the optical system of the fiber LDV probe comprises the two transmitting fibers, 4, 4, having Selfoc microlens, 41, 41, a receiving fiber, 5, and the three lens, 32, 33, and 34.
  • a laser beam out of the laser source, 14, is split into two beams and transmitted into the fibers, 4, 4, at the manipulator, 2.
  • the two laser beams out of the Selfoc microlens, 41, 41, are expanded at the beam expander, 32, 33, and focused at the measurement volume, o, by the front lens, 34.
  • the scattered light, 13, generated when a particle passes through the interference fringe of the measurement volume, 0, are collected by the front lens, 34, and focused on the end of the receiving fiber, 51, by the receiving lens, 33, and transmitted to a photodetector, where a light signal is transformed into a electrical signal.
  • a velocity of the flow is obtained by processing the electrical Doppler signals.
  • the two transmitting fibers, 4, 4, and one receiving fiber, 5, are connected at the end of the probe.
  • the other ends of the transmitting fibers, 4, 4, are connected at the manipulator, 2, to transmit laser power, and the other end of the receiving fiber is connected at a photomultiplier to transmit the scattered light from the measurement volume, 0.
  • the fiber LDV probe, 3 comprises the casing, 31, the two transmitting fibers, 4, 4, one receiving fiber, 5, the expand lens, 32, 33, and the front lens, 34.
  • the casing is a rod dimension.
  • the fibers having Selfoc microlens, 41, 41, to collimate the laser beams are installed in parallel.
  • the axis of the two Selfoc microlens is the same.
  • the expand lens combines the perforated concave lens, 32, and the plano convex lens, 33, and these two lens are fixed in the same axis.
  • the expander is used to expand the beam diameter and the beam distance.
  • the scattered light is collected by the front lens, 34, and focused on the end of the receiving fiber, 51, passing through the perforated part of the lens, 32b.
  • This perforated part works for the space filter to cut off the troublesome light scattered when a beam passes through the lens.
  • the second expand lens, 33 works for the expander of the incident beam and for receiving and focusing the light scattered on the fiber end. This is the reason why this invention can decrease the number of the optics and install a beam expander in such a small probe diameter.
  • the front lens, 34 is a plane convex lens.
  • the outer part works for focusing a beam and make the measurement volume, o
  • the inner part works for receiving of the light scattered from the measurement volume, o.
  • the explanation of the manipulator to transmit laser power into a fiber is in the followings;
  • the manipulator consists of a pair of the transmitting equipments, 22, 22, in the rectangular casing, 21.
  • the transmitting equipment comprises the laser beam introducing hole, 21a, the half-wave plate, 25, to corresponds a polarization direction of a laser beam to that of the fiber, the glass rod, 23, to adjust a numerical aperture of a incident beam into the fiber's numerical aperture, the focusing lens, 24, and the transmitting fibers, 4, 4.
  • the glass rod having an anti-reflection coating on both ends has a length of 80 mm in order to separate the first order shifted beam to the zero order shifted beam.
  • An adjustment is carried out by the three point supporting mechanism, 27, by tilting the end of the body, 23.
  • the front part is a gyro mechanism, 26, having the two screws, 27a, 27b, as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the focusing lens, 24a, and the receiving fiber, 4, are installed in the supporting tube, 24.
  • the laser beam out of the glass rod is introduced to the fiber, 4, by adjusting , with the same three point supporting mechanism, 24, and the gyro mechanism 28.
  • the front part, 28, is a gyro mechanism and the rear part is a three point supporting mechanism with the screws, 29a, 29b, and a spring.
  • the gyro mechanisms, 26, and 28, mentioned above comprise inner rings, 26a, 28a, and outer rings, 26b, 28b, and supports the glass rod and the tube.
  • the positioning of the focused beam into the core of the fiber is performed by changing the incident beam angle ⁇ 2 on the focusing lens, 24a, by tilting the end of the tube in the two directions with the screws, 29a, 29b.
  • the angle ⁇ 2 is changed by tilting the end of the tube, 24, in the same method.
  • the focused beam diameter d1 is smaller than the core diameter of 4 ⁇ m, d1 ⁇ d f (1) and (ii) the numerical aperture of the incident beam NA1 ( ⁇ 1 ) is smaller than that of the fiber NA f ( ⁇ f ), that is, ⁇ 1 ⁇ ⁇ f (2)
  • NA1 d in / 2f (4)
  • Na1 2 ⁇ / ⁇ d1 (5)
  • f is a focal length of the lens, 24a, is the wavelength
  • d in is the beam diameter at the front lens, 24a.
  • This invention achieves the high transmitting efficiency using the manipulator of 0.3 ⁇ m resolution in the x and y direction, 4 ⁇ m in the z direction, and 5.3*10 ⁇ 4 degrees in ⁇ and ⁇ directions which corresponds to 1/250 of the fiber's NA f .
  • the explanation of an effect of the fiber LDV is in the followings;
  • the laser beam out of the laser source, 14, is split into two beams and each beam passes through the half-wave plate, 25, glass rod, 23, focusing lens, 24a, then transmitted into the fiber, 4.
  • the output beam from the fiber is collimated at the Selfoc microlens, 41, passes through the expand lens, 32, 33, and made cross to make the measurement volume, o, by the front lens, 34.
  • the interference fringe is made at the beam crossing point. When a particle travels the interference fringe, light is scattered whose frequency corresponds to the Doppler frequency of the flow.
  • the light scattered is collected by the front lens, 34, and focused on the receiving fiber end, 51, by the receiving lens, 33.
  • the light scattered is transmitted to the photodetector and the velocity is calculated from the frequency at the signal processor, 14.
  • the perforated beam expander is used to expand the beam diameter to increase the SN ratio and the accuracy of the measurement, this invention reduces the number of the optical components and the complicated adjustment of the optics, and makes the probe diameter small compared with the conventional LDVs. Furthermore, a small measurement volume is achieved by expanding the incident beam diameter to the front lens. For example, a diameter of the measurement volume of 71.2 ⁇ m is formed when a focal length of the lens is 50 mm, but an only 149 ⁇ m in the conventional small fiber LDV. Thus, the light scattered intensity is increased and the SN ratio and the accuracy of the measurement is increased. Moreover, the perforated part of the expander lens plays a role of a space filter to cut off the troublesome light scattered when a beam passes through a lens.
  • the beam spot positioning and the angle adjustment are performed accurately and quickly.
  • an angle resolution of a manual adjustment of the screw is five degree
  • the resolution of the positioning of the focused beam is to be 0.3 ⁇ m and the coupling efficiency of 80 % is achieved. It is found this coupling efficiency of 80 % is very high compared with the calculated efficiency of 88.1 % taking the truncation lass and the reflection loss into account.

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